BIB_ID
363430
Accession number
MA 49.37
Creator
Dunlop, Frances Anna Wallace, 1730-1815.
Display Date
1788 Nov. 13.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 23.7 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Mr. Robt. Burns / Mossgil / Mauchline."
Dunlop likely reacquired these letters after Burns's death and left them to her descendants with the Lochryan manuscripts (42 of Burns's letters to Mrs. Dunlop and some autograph poems, now MA 46 in the Morgan's collection).
Franked by W. Kerr at "Edinr. Fifteenth Novr. 1788."
Part of a large collection of letters from Frances Dunlop to Robert Burns. Letters in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 49 for more information.
With trace of a seal.
Dunlop likely reacquired these letters after Burns's death and left them to her descendants with the Lochryan manuscripts (42 of Burns's letters to Mrs. Dunlop and some autograph poems, now MA 46 in the Morgan's collection).
Franked by W. Kerr at "Edinr. Fifteenth Novr. 1788."
Part of a large collection of letters from Frances Dunlop to Robert Burns. Letters in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 49 for more information.
With trace of a seal.
Provenance
General Sir John Wallace; by descent to Sir William Thomas Francis Agnew Wallace; bequeathed to his brother, Colonel F.J. Wallace; acquired by Robert Borthwick Adam before 1898; purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913, possibly from the London dealer Pearson.
Summary
Telling him that "for some days past" she has had "a return of [her] former deafness"; commenting on her many reasons for suffering from "uneasiness of mind"; noting the difficulties of marriage: "'Tis for most lovers, especially of the modern cast, a more tremendous venture to dare the gulph of matrimony than to jump down the promontory of Leucatelli, for more people can swim the ocean than can rise above the tide of vanity, whose abyss is unfathomable"; recommending "Darthula" by Mr. [James] Mylne of Lochhill and encouraging him to stop at Haddington to read it; reporting that she will be in Edinburgh the week after next.
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